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Edit your .vimrc settings file to include the following line: set enc=utf-8 And you should be able to edit a UTF-8 file in Windows using gvim. For Linux, just set the locale to utf-8 such as: export LANG=en_SG.UTF-8 Source: http://research.mosuma.com/faq/howto/vim-utf8